The news is not good on the job markets…..we keep losing job after job, but yet the recession is over……well that is crap to begin with….it may be over for investors but if you work for a living it still very much a threat to your life.
Sorry…I digress…….since the GOP has absolutely nothing to counter any Dem proposal on health reform, they have jumped head long into blaming Obama for the jobs lost and immediately equate that with a failed stim plan that he, Obama, had passed in the early days of his presidency.
Bloomber is reporting”
Republicans said the jobs data are evidence Obama’s $787 billion stimulus plan and the administration’s other economic recovery programs are failing. The report put Obama on the defensive after previous economic reports signaled a recovery was gaining traction.
Within minutes of the release of the government’s report, Republicans began e-mailing statements faulting Obama’s policies.
“President Obama can either acknowledge that his economic experiments have failed and change course, or continue down this path and see even more Americans lose their jobs,” Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said in a statement.
House Republican leader John Boehner, who criticized Obama for traveling to Copenhagen, said Democrats’ pledges that the stimulus package would create jobs are proving false.
bama may soon suffer the political fallout from the recession, said political scientist Bruce Buchanan at the University of Texas in Austin. The president and his party would pay a price in next year’s congressional elections if the numbers continue to disappoint.
Democrats at this point aren’t in danger of losing their majorities in Congress, he said. The political damage will be limited, “barring some peg to hang repetition on.”
When Obama took office in January, the U.S. unemployment rate was 7.6 percent. September’s unemployment figure would have reached 10.4 percent if hundreds of thousands of Americans hadn’t opted out of the labor force because jobs are so hard to get, Rupkey said.
Unfortunately, the voter does not realize nor care that any job losses began a year before Obama took office….all they know is that their neighbors and friends are unemployed and the sitting president will have to suffer the consequences of someone else plunders.
The Repubs will attack and attack the Obama admin, and eventually they will hit on something that will resonate with the voter, whether it is true or not, the voter will take heed….and it appears that jobs may just proves to be that position that actually works and not backfires on the GOP.